Chkdsk at every startup Windows 7

I've got a problem. Lately I've installed windows 7 on my area51 m15x alienware laptop and everything worked fine. Until yesterday. Since yesterday windows 7 wants to do a chkdsk at every startup. The weird thing is, I can't skip the chkdsk. If I press a key to skip it nothing happens. The countdown keeps on counting down and remains at 1. After that nothing happens. it does not do any dischecking neither can I skip it. I already checked the smart status of my hdd (which is only a year old btw) and it is fine. I did a check for error sectors with hd tune but nothing turned up. Sometimes if I reboot often enough it happens, that the windows 7 boots after the countdown went to 1 but still it does not do any diskchecking and the next time I reboot it want's to do it again. If I run chkdsk from the command prompt in read only mode (I only can do that because its the main partition) it says "no errors found". That kind of sucks totaly...

Any ideas what I could do?

Edit: Can someone please move this thread to the windows 7 forum? I seem to have overlooked it.

Regards Ingrater

 

Hi Ingrator,

Do you use Avira as your antivirus? It seems that Avira users in particular have this problem, though it isn't limited to them. See http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/353734/windows-7-chkdsk-bug-linked-to-antivirus-software for more.

 

Try this link.

http://blogs.technet.com/ganand/archive/2009/03/17/how-to-stop-chkdsk-from-running.aspx

 

I already thought about disabeling it, but this would be my last option. Maybe some day I need it because the file system is courupted and then it doesn't work. I rather would like to know why it doesn't work and why I can't skip it.

Edit: And yes I'm using antivir. Thanks for the tip. It seems that I will have to disable it.

 

that link dead.

 

It doesn't disable Chkdsk. Rather fixes the mechanism that causes chkdsk to start on bootup.

Works on my end.

 

I've been having this problem every single time I boot up on my desktop. I did a Google search and found out that Avira may be the cause of the problem (as mentioned above). I couldn't believe it at first but I tried it out and indeed after removing Avira for one week I don't have a chkdsk every single boot up.

So, I guess my next question is how come I don't get any chkdsks on my laptop? My laptop is still running Avira and there are no chkdsks at boot up but my desktop kept having one every boot up.

 

can you open command prompt and type "fsutil dirty query c:" change C: with the hdd that has the issue and tell me the result ?

 

@arktrance
My laptop did run without problems for about 2 months with windows 7 and avira. Then it started with the chkdsk every startup. So most likly some day your laptop will also do a chkdsk at every startup.